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Behavioral
Health Preparedness, Response, and Recovery in Kansas: Keeping People
Connected in Times of Crisis

The Kansas All-Hazards
Behavioral Health Program (KAHBH) is a program that is funded by
a contract between the Kansas State University School of Family
Studies and Human Services, the Kansas Department of Social and
Rehabilitation Services, Mental Health (SRS), and the Kansas Department
of Health and Environment (KDHE). The KAHBH Program is responsible
for the following core tasks:

To develop a compendium of resources for use
at community and regional levels, to meet the peri- and post-event
psychosocial needs of victims, at-risk individuals, family members,
and emergency first responders.

Assist hospital and public health regions
by identifying key behavioral health professionals in the State
who can assist these regions in developing behavioral health components
of their plans.

To assist SRS in the development of an All-Hazards
Behavioral Health Plan/Annex (which will serve as the SRS Behavioral
Health ANNEX /Appendix to the Kansas Emergency Operations Plan).

To work with SRS Mental Health to identify
the minimum behavioral health training competencies, to develop
a curriculum, and to provide the training and refresher courses
for health care professionals and community leaders responding
to a Presidentially declared disaster or other public health emergencies.

To develop a system for SRS Mental Health
to identify and track the number of health professionals and community
leaders trained in the recognition, outreach, treatment and referral
of patients exhibiting behavioral health consequences related
to a Presidentially declared disaster and other public health
emergencies.

To include the Kansas Department of Health
and Environment (KDHE) in behavioral health preparedness networks
and work groups overseeing the All-Hazards Behavioral Health Plan
development and implementation, and work with KDHE to ensure that
regional hospital preparedness plans are integrated with this
plan

To work with SRS Mental Health to design a
process to make application, to coordinate community outreach
services, and to provide on-site program management for the FEMA/SAMHSA
Center for Mental Health Services Immediate Services Program and
Regular Services Program in the event of a Presidentially declared
disaster.